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thanks for the compliments guys. really appreciated after all the work i did on this one.
alain, when i got this bike it had smaller willie and max bags on it that i just didn't care for. i love huge bags on a bike, especially these bikes, as they have a longer wheelbase than the harley roadking...really big bikes. think the huge bags is one of the things that attracts me to the indians/drifters with the big esprey bags. lots of guys on the LC forum are putting the harley hard bags on these bikes, but at $500 plus for a set, i just wasn't going there! anyway, i went looking for the biggest set of bags i could find and this is what i came up with. they are river road bags.
as far as color, when i first got the bike and thought about painting it, i was leaning toward a pearl yellow, but just couldn't find exactly what i wanted. so many of the pearl yellows change to an orange tint when in the sun. i would probably go with basic black, or a pearl black.
stan, thanks for the input on the green. i'm with you on that, as far as greens go, this is a pretty green...especially in the sun, but green is just not my color. every time i add something to the bike, i think it'll make me like it better, but just hasn't "tripped my trigger" yet! as far as the lightbar, i thought about it and have watched ebay to try and find a cheap one, but the one weak point of these bikes is the stator. they had a lot of problems with them. i had to replace the one on the '01 LC i had a couple years ago, and i know the lightbars pull a lot of juice. i do like the looks of them on the front also. at o'reillys the other day i looked at a neat set of driving lights i may get for it and mount on the engine guards. they are small, but all chrome and nice looking for around 40 bucks a set.
roger, more than likely the color will remain the same. i said something to lillian last night about just selling it and looking for something else(a T), but she said i should just paint it if that's all that was keeping me from liking it. problem with painting is i've added a lot of pieces that i'd ruin if i took the bike apart again, and then i'd have to make them all over.
thanks fred, this one was certainly a "fixer upper". it only has 9k miles, but think it was "rode hard and put up wet"! it was one of the dirtiest bikes i've ever bought, but i could see past that and knew it would clean up nicely.
later, bud